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Today, when it comes to young Asian stars, Cho now has some company. There’s Steven Yeun, who plays a zombie-slaying heartthrob on “The Walking Dead." The new sitcom “Fresh off the Boat” also stars an Asian American family. There’s talk about whether a real shift is underway in Hollywood for Asian Americans and, specifically, for Asian American men.

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Lucy Alexis Liu (born in 1968) is an American Chinese actress. She was well known for vicious and ill-mannered role of Ling Woo in the TV series Ally McBeal (1998–2002), and she also performed in several Hollywood movies including Payback, Charlie’s Angels, Chicago and Kill Bill.

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Zhang Ziyi (born in 1979) is a Chinese film actress with international fame. She gained fame in the Western World for her leading role in Ann lee’s martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), which wins Best Foreign Film Oscar. Ziyi Zhang made her Hollywood debut in Stephen Spielberg’s 2005 film Memoirs of a Geisha, becoming the first Chinese actress starring in Hollywood A-level movie. She also won the Best Actress for her movie “The Grandmaster” of the Asian Film Awards in Macau in 2014.

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Despite various voices on the internet coming out against the movie's mostly white, non-Asian cast (some Facebook users have even called for a boycott of the film), the real MIT Blackjack Team's former members were not offended. The real Jeff Ma (Ben Campbell in the movie) said, "For me it wasn't a big deal, because for about three years people had been asking me who I wanted to play me in a movie and I never was saying like 'John Cho' or 'Chow Yun-Fat' or 'Jackie Chan...' I think people like to look at it at face value like that, the reality is if you ask anyone who they wanted to play you, it wouldn't necessarily be 'Who's the most ethnically tied to me?'" Instead, Jeff believes that most people would want someone who is 'cool' to play them, or rather a talented actor who personifies their personality the best.

John Chang, who is part of the real life composite that makes up Kevin Spacey's Micky Rosa, believes that if Spacey's cold, manipulative, Mephistophelian character had been portrayed by an Asian actor, people would be complaining about that too. "Being played by a 2-time Oscar winner isn't exactly an insult."

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Bai Ling was born Chengdu in 1961. She was one of the most active Asian actors in Hollywood. She started to gain attention by attending Moscow International Film Festival the film The Shining Arc in 1989. Since coming to the United States in 1990, she has appeared in many Hollywood movies including Star Wars III, Wild Wild West, She Hates Me, Anna the King and Sky Captain World of Tomorrow. She is the first Asian actress to appear on the cover of Playboy magazine.

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John Cho is one of the few prominent Asian American male actors in Hollywood. You might recognize him from the Harold and Kumar movies or the recent Star Trek blockbusters.

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Now, with all due journalistic objectivity here, John Cho is hot. In 2009, People Magazine voted him sexiest man alive. But in Hollywood, it’s still rare to see Asian men cast as confident, leading men. Hollywood hasn’t wanted to date them. And that impacts what America thinks of Asian men. And what Asian American men think of themselves.

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The Korean-Irish American actor is already a heartthrob in Korea, and he's shown he can carry an American film in the independent romantic comedy Shanghai Calling, but Hollywood seems to only know how to cast him as a supporting character. You can make him a cop; you can make him a villain; even if you make him wear glasses, no one will complain about him being a Asian nerd stereotype, because he'll just look like a really hot professor.